Staff Sgt. Sean G. Landrus of Thompson, Ohio was the youngest of six children, who excelled in football, basketball and track in high school and was known for his competitive spirit. He hated to be taken out of a game or anything when he was playing sports. If he got an injury or anything, he'd bug the coach to send him back out there. Sean attended Kent State University before enlisting in the Army and married Chris, his high school sweetheart, in 1995. The couple has three children. He liked the military life, but was not planning on re-enlisting because he had a family. Sean hated being behind a desk so much that he declined an office job to serve in a combat zone. His wife talked to him the week before he was injured, and said he sounded the best he had in a long time. Sean died at age 31 at the 28th Combat Support Hospital in Iraq of injuries sustained two days earlier when a roadside improvised explosive device exploded. He died doing what he wanted to do. Sean was buried in the cemetery at the Catholic Church in his hometown as a crowd of about 100 watched in bitter cold and snow flurries. His wife, Chris, sat mostly still and cried under a green tent as a military color guard methodically folded an American flag and handed it to her daughter. Later, a detachment of soldiers from Fort Knox, Kentucky fired a salute from their rifles.
Army
Company B
1st Engineer Battalion
1st Brigade Combat Team
1st Infantry Division (Mechanized)
Fort Riley, Kansas
Army
Company B
1st Engineer Battalion
1st Brigade Combat Team
1st Infantry Division (Mechanized)
Fort Riley, Kansas
Staff Sgt. Sean G. Landrus of Thompson, Ohio was the youngest of six children, who excelled in football, basketball and track in high school and was known for his competitive spirit. He hated to be taken out of a game or anything when he was playing sports. If he got an injury or anything, he'd bug the coach to send him back out there. Sean attended Kent State University before enlisting in the Army and married Chris, his high school sweetheart, in 1995. The couple has three children. He liked the military life, but was not planning on re-enlisting because he had a family. Sean hated being behind a desk so much that he declined an office job to serve in a combat zone. His wife talked to him the week before he was injured, and said he sounded the best he had in a long time. Sean died at age 31 at the 28th Combat Support Hospital in Iraq of injuries sustained two days earlier when a roadside improvised explosive device exploded. He died doing what he wanted to do. Sean was buried in the cemetery at the Catholic Church in his hometown as a crowd of about 100 watched in bitter cold and snow flurries. His wife, Chris, sat mostly still and cried under a green tent as a military color guard methodically folded an American flag and handed it to her daughter. Later, a detachment of soldiers from Fort Knox, Kentucky fired a salute from their rifles.
Army
Company B
1st Engineer Battalion
1st Brigade Combat Team
1st Infantry Division (Mechanized)
Fort Riley, Kansas
Army
Company B
1st Engineer Battalion
1st Brigade Combat Team
1st Infantry Division (Mechanized)
Fort Riley, Kansas
